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From the page: "Do you feel frustrated by the commercialism, screaming for ever bigger and more expensive gifts -- "Have you done your holiday shopping yet?" as if the holidays were only about spending money? As if it were almost your duty to run up impossible charges?

Does your heart sink at the thought of the credit card bills that are part and parcel of today's holidays?"

From the page: "Let me tell you where they are. Nowhere. For all the conservative posturing about 'protecting the children', when it actually comes down to caring about those children, it's clear that it begins at conception and ends at birth. Last Saturday's health care debate was evidence of that. While women's bodies became the football tossed to conservatives in order to get health care reform through the House of Representatives, not ONE SINGLE pro-family anti-abortion Republican could be bothered to admit the immorality of denying access to health care to the women who carry and bear them. NOT ONE. "

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From the page: "With this lesson in mind, pro-choice Democrats need to understand this: Contraception coverage is next. Make no mistake. Now they have a precedent of banning insurance companies from covering abortion, but this will not, of course, stop women from fucking. So contraception is next. And if you doubt me, remember what happened when the Democrats tried to include contraception access expansion in the stimulus bill. There was a full-blown sex panic, the fear that those Other Women would be fucking. They will try to harness that energy, and this precedent, all to force your insurance company to stop covering your pill, your IUD, and possibly any gynecological care associated with them. That Pap smear that you get before your prescription is refilled? Under anti-choice reasoning, prepare to hear that described as �oeabortion”. "

From the page: "Christmas trees are a pretty big debate with environmentalist. Real trees have problems like filling up the landfill, harmful pesticides, poor farming practices, and other issues. Fake trees are almost always made with PVC which can contain lead, can't be recycled when no longer usable, and a host of other problems.

But don't think this means you have to give up having a Christmas tree. There are many options. Here are just a few."

From the page: "The problem is not that young bodies are beautiful, it is that, particularly in the case of young women, their bodies have been used to symbolise commodified pleasure, and when everything about you represents consumption you can be terribly vulnerable. The appreciation of youthful beauty would not be so troublesome were it not to come with the sense of entitlement that is the leering eye. In our culture young women are both sexualised and silenced �" a terribly dangerous combination for them."

From the page: "If a fat woman, like you or I, gets on a plane, no one wants to sit next to us. Because they might be a bit put out that we take up some of their seat. It isn't our fault they make seats for thin people. Yeah, it sucks that the thin person might have to lose a little bit of their comfort. It isn't so great for us, either, spread across two seats. Especially when we have to put up with the glares and daggers. But if a thin person wrote an article about how how, to be fair, the thin person had a point, and the comments discussed how we should either lose the fat or not fly at all? I think you'd be up in arms.

If I get on a plane with my two year old, no one wants to sit next to me. Because they might be a bit put out that my child is noisy with either excitement or upset. It isn't my fault they don't make flights particularly child-friendly, with, say, games, or in-flight movies (except in the posh bit of the plane, obviously, where I can't afford to go). It also isn't my fault that if I nursed my child to calm him, I might also risk being kicked off the plane. (It also isn't my fault that if I did put an in-flight movie on for him, I'd still get judged for letting him watch television at all!) Yeah, it sucks that the child-free person might have to lose a bit of their comfort. It isn't so great for me, either, having to cope with an unhappy child, especially when I have to put up with the glares and daggers."

From the page: "Why would the world�s largest infant formula company want to help mothers breastfeed? Huge spoiler ahead. Ready? They don�t. Yes, Nestle runs a glossy US website called the Start Healthy Stay Healthy Resource Center which claims that it gives expert advice about infant nutrition. Yes, the website�s informational section on breastfeeding is actually larger than the corresponding section on formula feeding. And yes, of course, some of the advice is accurate. It has to be. If they gave nothing but blatantly bogus information that would look pretty bad and a certain level of credibility is essential. Instead, the advice is misleading and manipulative in subtle ways. The �oewhy” part should go without saying; if they can turn a mother who plans to breastfeed (as the majority do these days) into a mother who feeds her baby Good Start, they have just earned thousands of dollars. Switzerland is not in fact neutral."